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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (51198)	6/17/2002 9:38:50 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

That's a good essay. Where did you find it? Yet if the perceived majority were to organize they would immediately be attacked as racist and prejudice and branded NAZI or KKK. I can't take exception to groups of minorities and other outsiders organizing to get their POV across. That seems both natural to me and important to the democratic process. The problem comes when they get so caught up in it that they lose their perspectives--their common sense--and push it too far or too hard. It makes no sense at all that a majority would want to so organize except in defense against minority groups who have lost their bearings. Whenever a majority wants to so organize absent a loss of common sense on the other side, then it would likely be fair to call them bigots. When those majority issue groups spring up, it seems to me that the answer is not to let them do their thing just like the minority groups but to evaluate if they're bigots or if they're trying to counter an excess. If it's the latter, then the we should try to restore the common sense of their opposition, not support them pursuing the same tack. No common sense in that, at all.

To: average joe who wrote (51198)	6/17/2002 12:42:01 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

From Media Notes in today's Post. InstaPundit's Glenn Reynolds jabs the press over a case involving parents who refused to accept their daughter's failing grade: "By now a lot of people have heard the story of the high school senior whose parents threatened to sue the teacher who – apparently quite properly – flunked her. Now this Arizona Republic editorial raises the question that has occurred to me: Why don't we know the names of those parents? "'The girl's parents, who have done nothing to deserve the anonymity this and other reports afford them, have performed perhaps even a worse service than the district. Perhaps even worse than the lawyer. They've made clear to their daughter that failure is never her responsibility. And that is a terrible message for any parent to send.' "Yeah, they don't deserve anonymity. Maybe the girl's a minor – but is there a general rule of never reporting a minor's name? I don't think so. And why not report the parents' names? They're not minors. Yeah, sure, that would get the daughter's name in public. But given that they threatened a lawsuit, well, that goes with the territory. I don't see why they should be cut a break here. In fact, the letter sent by lawyer Stan Massad seems to border on extortion, something that the Arizona Bar should perhaps look into . . . : 'Of course, all information regarding your background, your employment records, all of your class records, past and present, dealings with this and other students become relevant, should litigation be necessary.' "Whether or not this constitutes a crime or a violation of legal ethics isn't for me to say – but anyone willing to threaten to make private facts public in order to get an action they desire from a public employee surely has no standing in demanding that his/her own privacy be respected. The press's bizarre incidents of over- and under-sensitivity baffle me." Join the club, Insta man.